Tuesday, October 13, 2015

The Basics: Definitions of Mental and Physical Mediums

During physical mediumship, physical effects including materializations and table-tipping are produced.

During mental mediumship, the medium conveys messages from deceased people or animals (called discarnates) to their living loved ones (called sitters) during a specific event (called a reading).

The states of consciousness experienced by the medium during either of these two different types exist along a continuum from waking states to trance states of varying depth. Many mediums experience significant alterations of consciousness on some occasions and a waking state (albeit somewhat altered) on other occasions.

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I received my doctorate in Pharmacology and Toxicology with a minor in Microbiology and Immunology from the University of Arizona in 2003 where I later served as the William James Post-doctoral Fellow in Mediumship and Survival Research and Co-Director of the VERITAS Research Program until that program closed at the end of 2007. At that time, I co-founded the Windbridge Institute with my husband Mark Boccuzzi where I serve as Director of Research. For more (as well as more personal) info, visit the "Full Bio" page.